Days
Lesson Topic WHY - essential questions
Important Vocab WHAT / DO (activities included)
1
1/24
Intro to Psychology: Unit I (5-7 days)
How can we apply PSYCHOLOGY- the scientific study of MIND and BEHAVIOR?
Introduce course (syllabus, seating, expectations)
Fake Smiles
Facial expressions - Fake Smile

2-3
1/27
Self-Disclosure: 2 truths and 1 lie
Why is it important., yet difficult to get to know others?
Monitoring the way people see us
Self-disclosure
High-low self monitor
start 1/27
finish
1/28
Approaches to Psychology (a jigsaw activity)

Why do people do what they do?
Cognitive
Sociocultural
Psychoanalytic
Sigmund Freud
Humanistic
Neurobiological/Biological
Behaviorist


HOMEWORK -
Formative assessment - Approaches - you need to sign-in to school google-docs
5
1/29
Share TRIANGLE disclosure; EMPATHIC LISTENING
Empathic listening
6
2/4
Do we have a hidden self? Hidden agendas: A deep look into Psychoanalysis (Freud defense skits)
Id
Ego
Superego
Repression
Regression
Projection
Displacement
Rationalization


No school 2/3, 2/5, 2/6- snow/ice
2/7
Johari Window (personality in conflict)
Johari Window
Blind Window
Open Window


8 2/11
An Analysis of personalities, defense mechanisms - through clips of film Frank Abagnale Jr.
Review terms

2/12,
2/18,
2/19
Start brain research then finish
Put links here
Students will have to memorize the lobes of brain:
Frontal,
Parietal,
Occipital and
Temporal
2/20
Brain in isolation: Genie
Critical Period
Sensation/Perception of Genie, Victor
WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

9
2/21
Sensation, Perception, and the Brain: Unit II (12 days)

Can we live with ½ brain
Right Brain
Left Brain
Hemispherectomy
Meet Emily
Corpus Callosum
Lateralization
Plasticity
****QUIZ**** GO TO END AND SEND COPY
10
2/24
Cranium
Characteristics of left, right brain continued
BRAIN LATERALIZATION
2/25
Split Brain
Corpus Callosum
Split Brain - play this game

Dr. Ramachandran on split brain patients
Scientific American
Interactive GOOGLE QUIZ
11
2/26
The Great Debate: Male Female Brain

Left Hemisphere size
Hypothalamus size
Corpus Callosum size
Phineas Gage

Neurons
Hum of neuron

LABEL -

Dendrites
Axon
Terminal Branches/buttons
Synaptic terminal
Synapse
Neurotransmitters

Neurotransmission
2/27

START NOW: Mad Mad Neuron

Sensation Perception -the eye
Retina
Rods
Cones
Blind Spot

READ THIS TO TAKE NOTES ON EYE -

16

Take this quiz -
IT IS GRADED
17
Sensation Perception Lecture
Sensation
Perception
Sensory Adaptation
Subliminal Stimulation
18
The Eye; Blind Experiment

19
Review
STUDY

20
Test Unit I, II